Vivek Gupta vivek.g.gupta@intel.com Joint Opening Plenary IEEE 802.21 Media Independent Handover Services Session #18 London, UK Vivek Gupta vivek.g.gupta@intel.com Vivek Gupta, Chair 802.21 WG

WG Officers Office Officer Chair Vivek Gupta Vice Chair Michael Williams Secretary Xiaoyu Liu Editor Qiaobing Xie 802.11 Liaison David Hunter 802.16 Liaison Peretz Feder IETF Liaison Yoshihiro Ohba The WG has 71 voting members as of this meeting Vivek Gupta, Chair 802.21 WG

Session Time and Location Location: Hilton Metropole, London, UK Time: Monday: Afternoon: 1.30 pm – 6.00 pm (2 meeting slots: PM1, PM2) Tuesday to Thursday: Morning: 8.00 am – 12.00 pm (2 meeting slots/morning: AM1, AM2) Afternoon: 1.00 pm – 6.00 pm (2 meeting slots/evening: PM1, PM2) Total of 14 meeting slots To get attendance credit towards voting membership for this Plenary, one would require 75% attendance in 11 meeting slots Vivek Gupta, Chair 802.21 WG

802.21 WG Charter IEEE 802.21 is developing standards to enable handover and interoperability between heterogeneous networks including both 802 and non-802 networks Vivek Gupta, Chair 802.21 WG

Summary of Completed Work Draft Specification (P802-21-D01) confirmed – May 2005 WG Letter Ballot Progress LB #1 Completed (April 30, 2006) Return Ratio: 81%, Approval Ratio: 26% LB #1a Recirculation Completed (Oct 23, 2006) Return Ratio: 85%, Approval Ratio 30% LB #1b Recirculation Completed (Jan 03, 2007) Return Ratio: 86%, Approval Ratio 46% Interaction with other 802 groups and other SDOs 802.16: MIH solution incorporated in 802.16g in Nov 2005 802.11: MIH solution incorporated in 802.11u in Sep 2006 3GPP: Requirements for IS Accepted at SA2#52 in May-2006, Discussion paper on IS submitted at SA2#55 in Oct-2006 Vivek Gupta, Chair 802.21 WG

Objectives for the Jan Meeting Complete LB #1b Comment Resolution Technical Comment Resolution Discuss submitted contributions Plan for Re-circulation of draft at end of Jan meeting Discussion on future WG activities Security Issues in Transition by Jesse Walker Interaction with other 802 groups and external SDOs Joint session with 802.11u Joint session with 802.16g Other presentations Update from P1900.4 Update on Ambient Networks Project Vivek Gupta, Chair 802.21 WG